Investigating the TEFL ESP practitioner’s dilemmatic current status in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
Joint Authors
Shalan, Ahmad Khalis
Muhammad, Ghida Ali
Source
Issue
Vol. 20, Issue 2 العلوم الإنسانية و الاجتماعية (31 Dec. 2017), pp.51-67, 17 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2017-12-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
Abstract EN
As a specialist in TEFL/ESP, the writers of this research-paper submitted a proposal of a symposium about TEFL/ESP titled “Teaching ESP in Iraqi-Kurdistan Region: Reality & Prospects”, to the Deanery of the College of Languages/ Nawroz University in collaboration with the College of Administration & Economics/ Nawroz University.
Four researches from three universities in Dohuk Governorate area delivered six papers on the platform of Kurdistan Hall/ Nawroz University.
Meanwhile, it was presumed in advance that the symposium attending-practitioners who usually teach the ESP programs would be of two types majoring: - (Type 1) practitioners with TEFL-qualification, and - (Type 2) practitioners with no TEFL-qualification but they teach ESP programs depending on the experience of using English as medium of instruction gained when they were postgraduate-students; their medium of study was English.
Hence, the writers of this research-paper in advance designed and prepared two versions of questionnaire forms to investigate the two types attending-practitioners’ readiness to teach ESP.
The questionnaire versions was built upon the six dimensions (each with 3 parameters) of Kumaravadivelu’s cyclic module of TEFL (2012); aiming at investigating the extent the two types of practitioners could realize during their performances of teaching an ESP program, in order then to make a sort of comparison between the two groups’ achievements.
Two hypotheses were in mind: - the ESP practitioners with TEFL-qualification could not fairly fulfill the objectives of teaching the scientific programs other than the TEFL programs, though they majored in English, and - the ESP practitioners with non-TEFL-qualification could not fairly fulfill the objectives of their major-scientific-programs with no experience of how to use English as a medium of study.
Distributing the questionnaire forms, collecting them back, analyzing the data, gathering the results, and making comparison between the 2-type-practitioners’ responses, the following findings were reached: - The two investigated types of ESP practitioners could fairly satisfy the objectives built on Kumaravadivelu’s cyclic module.
- Significant differences were marked in favor of the type 2 practitioners, in respect of satisfying the needs of Kumaravadivelu’s cyclic module.
Finally, certain recommendations were made about how to develop an advance ESP discipline.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Shalan, Ahmad Khalis& Muhammad, Ghida Ali. 2017. Investigating the TEFL ESP practitioner’s dilemmatic current status in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Journal of Dohuk University،Vol. 20, no. 2 العلوم الإنسانية و الاجتماعية, pp.51-67.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-794133
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Shalan, Ahmad Khalis& Muhammad, Ghida Ali. Investigating the TEFL ESP practitioner’s dilemmatic current status in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Journal of Dohuk University Vol. 20, no. 2 Humanities and Social Sciences (Dec. 2017), pp.51-67.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-794133
American Medical Association (AMA)
Shalan, Ahmad Khalis& Muhammad, Ghida Ali. Investigating the TEFL ESP practitioner’s dilemmatic current status in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Journal of Dohuk University. 2017. Vol. 20, no. 2 العلوم الإنسانية و الاجتماعية, pp.51-67.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-794133
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 63-66
Record ID
BIM-794133